Phone hacking: Hunt worried Murdoch ‘was not told’
Posted: 2011/07/21 Filed under: Jeremy Hunt, UK Politicians Leave a commentfrom BBC News
Jeremy Hunt has said News Corporation still has questions to answer about
why Rupert Murdoch and other executives did not know about the extent of
phone hacking at the News of the World. The culture secretary told the BBC he was “shocked” that “people …
Phone-hacking scandal: Tuesday’s key quotes
Posted: 2011/07/18 Filed under: Gordon Brown, News International Leave a commentfrom The Guardian
Allegations that the former prime minister Gordon Brown was the victim of systematic hacking and “blagging” have upped the stakes in the News International scandal still further. …
News International hits back at Gordon Brown hacking allegations
Posted: 2011/07/18 Filed under: Gordon Brown, News International Leave a commentfrom Telegraph.co.uk
The Sun newspaper has defended itself against allegations that it accessed former prime minister Gordon Brown’s family medical records without his knowledge. The tabloid, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s embattled News International, insisted information that …
Phone hacking: Parties to unite over BSkyB bid call
Posted: 2011/07/18 Filed under: BSkyB, News Corp, News of the World phone hacking, UK Politicians Leave a commentfrom BBC News
The Tories and Lib Dems are expected to back a Labour motion calling for Mr Murdoch’s News Corporation to drop the bid while phone hacking at the News of the World is investigated. The move could ramp up pressure on the media mogul but is not legally …
Police under fire over British phone-hacking scandal
Posted: 2011/07/18 Filed under: Gordon Brown, Metropolitan Police, News of the World phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, UK Politicians Leave a commentfrom the Botswana Gazette
LONDON (AFP) – British lawmakers were to grill police chiefs Tuesday amid
reports that royalty and ex-prime minister Gordon Brown were targeted in a phone-hacking scandal that felled Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World. Four past and present senior …
Political leaders to hear Milly family plea on hacking
Posted: 2011/07/18 Filed under: Dowler family, uk, UK Politicians, Uncategorized Leave a commentfrom the Yorkshire Post
THE family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler are to meet with the leaders of the country’s three main political parties to demand “stronger, clearer and faster …
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